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Question about the nosebleeds

posted 11 years ago by kitty-marie
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Just played the game for the first time this week and am currently watching a let's play when I noticed something I didn't catch before:

Booker gets the nosebleeds when he's confronted with things that disrupt his fabricated or conflicting memories. The whole reason he gets the nosebleeds (to my understanding) is because of his...dimensional displacement, shall we say? He's got more than one version of his own history in his mind because he was removed from his own universe/timeline (and subsequently gets skipped around to others throughout the game), and is existing in a space he was never supposed to be.

So then, why would the soldiers and Chen Lin be getting nosebleeds? Elizabeth says maybe some part of them remembers being dead, but that doesn't make sense to me. Booker's mind is all kinds of scrambled, again, because he's outside of his own whatever, but there should be no connection between the dead soldiers and Chen Lin in the universe they left and the living soldiers and Chen Lin in the universe they crossed into.

Unless we're meant to take it that Elizabeth was actually altering the world or creating new ones all along, and not in fact crossing over to others as she believed?

Sorry, checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish.

[–] Donuts10 11 years ago

It bought the nosebleeds meant that an alternate version of themselves died. Booker kills comstock (himself) immediately his nose started bleeding. Chein Lin died in one universe, they went into another and he was alive. Same with the soldiers.

[–] LordBoots 11 years ago

Unless we're meant to take it that Elizabeth was actually altering the world or creating new ones all along, and not in fact crossing over to others as she believed?

Elizabeth mentions at one point that she was wrong about her powers and that she actually is creating these new universes.

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[–] RiseUpMegalon 11 years ago

'Course, she could be wrong again.

[–] CovertThunder 9 years ago

The part with Chen Line and the soldiers remembering themselves getting killed got me really confused, especially since Booker was killed in multiple other universes yet the player Booker doesn't seem to remember getting killed or anything. My thought is that Chen Line and the soldiers were similar to the Tears that Elizabeth can utilize. They're in a separate universe, yet Booker can see them although it takes Elizabeth making a conscious effort to bring them from one universe to the other.

Plus I always thought at that part of the game, Elizabeth was learning the full extent of her powers (which had been repressed by Comstock's tower since her childhood) which she didn't fully understand while she and Booker were becoming more confused about what to do in general. Elizabeth's emotions are shown to be able to affect the universe around her, so maybe her confusion regarding her powers and what was going on regarding life, death and Chen Lin is why that's one of the only places where you see people who can't distinguish between life and death.

I was recently watching Lost on Netflix and there's certain parts where there's time travel, which causes certain individuals to experience nosebleeds. I don't know if there's some theoretical science behind it, but maybe Bioshock Infinite was just referencing Lost.

Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.